Member of Technical Staff (Frontend)

Astrocade is an AI technology company building super-intelligence for the interactive world, delivered through a breakout consumer platform.

Today's frontier models can write, reason, and generate video. None can build a world you can step into and act on. Interactive world models, systems that generate playable experiences, are one of the defining problems on the path to ASI, and the foundation of the next great consumer platform. Interactivity is the holy grail of content: not something you watch, but something that responds to you. Cracking it will redefine how the world plays, learns, and connects. We're further ahead than anyone: the only team building the intelligence and the platform together, and both are already live.

Our social UGC platform lets anyone create and play interactive experiences through natural language. And it's one of the fastest-growing consumer products in the world, with over 30 million users in just months since launch. Creators bring to life games, companions that remember and grow with them, learning experiences that adapt like a great tutor, and social worlds built with friends. The platform also powers our research with data no video dataset contains: millions of creators prompting and refining gives us paired data of human intent and the worlds that fulfill it, and every play session produces ground-truth, action-labeled interaction data at scale. All of it flows back into our models, and research ships to real players in days, spinning a flywheel no one else can build.

We are a small team from Google Research, Meta, FAIR, Character.ai http://Character.ai, and Stanford, led alongside Chief Scientist Fei-Fei Li, with frontier-scale compute and direct ownership of core model problems. We are backed by Sequoia Capital alongside Google, NVIDIA, LG, SEA Gaming, Dentsu Ventures, and Conviction, and by luminaries including Eric Schmidt and Jerry Yang.

The next foundational AI company will be built where world models meet a billion players. We're the rare place where frontier research and a breakout consumer platform are one company, and where your work ships to millions, not to a paper. Come build it with us.

About THE Role

Games are more engaging, more meaningful, and more fun than passive content — and we think everyone should be able to make them. As a Frontend Member of Technical Staff (MTS), you’ll help make that a reality. You’ll own the creation and play experiences that millions of users touch every day, working at the intersection of product intuition, AI-generated content, and consumer-grade polish. This is a small, dense team: you won’t be maintaining someone else’s system — you will be shaping how the platform feels.

What You’ll DO

• Build and own core user-facing features across the creation and discovery experiences

• Work closely with AI/systems engineers to surface complex, AI-generated content in ways that feel fast, intuitive, and delightful

• Make opinionated calls on UX — we care about taste, not just correctness

• Optimize for performance at real consumer scale (tens of millions of users, high-frequency play sessions)

• Contribute to frontend architecture decisions and uphold high code quality standards

• YOU’D BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU:

• Have 3–6+ years of frontend experience (ideally on consumer products)

• Are fluent in React and TypeScript, and have strong opinions about their use

• Have built products where experience quality was central to the product

• Have worked on data-rich or real-time UIs (feeds, game rendering, dashboards, etc.)

• Are self-directed and work independently from idea to shipped product

Bonus Points

• Experience with WebGL, canvas, or game rendering

• Experience on high-growth consumer platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Roblox, YouTube)

• Familiarity with recommendation-driven feed UIs

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus equity

• Health, dental, and vision coverage

• Lunch provided daily

Join us to help build the future of interactive entertainment.